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...possible that he didn't want people to know what hard graft went into the finished product. After all, when he started his career at the tail end of the 15th century, artists were seen as craftsmen rather than geniuses. His bourgeois father disapproved of his low-status career choice. Thankfully, however, about 600 of the drawings survive, and around 95 have been beautifully reassembled in an exhibition titled Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master, which runs at London's British Museum until June 25. The drawings, taken from the museum's own collection and others in Oxford...
...Close as it is to their shores, the western half of the island of New Guinea remains a mystery to most Australians - as does its Melanesian people's 40-year struggle for self-rule. Home to vast mineral and timber wealth, West Papua's status is an accident of colonialism: retained by the Dutch when Indonesia declared independence in 1945, it came under Indonesian rule after the Act of Free Choice referendum in 1969 - a change decried by many Papuans, who say the 1,000 voters were hand-picked by Indonesia...
...explore other, ornery dreams. Like white-collar wage slaves, but 30 years too early, they are undergoing a mid-teen crisis. The received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical, and another hoopster has a forbidden love for baking. One boy secretly plays the cello...
This collective silence—and this tacit acceptance of the status quo—is unacceptable. Sure, these struggling students may now feel great qualifying for the tournament, but a few years down the road, nobody will remember which teams competed last month. More to the point, nobody will care...
...While slamming his opponents for being traditional politicians and supporters of the "status quo," Humala tells TIME that one of his first acts in office would be to "eliminate the 'golden payroll' for government employees," slashing salaries of the president and lawmakers. But on paper, the status quo doesn't seem so bad in Peru these days. The country is experiencing its longest economic expansion in modern history - 57 months - and inflation is near 1%, while exports have tripled to $18 billion in five years. Yet a majority of Peruvians are demanding radical change because the boom has not trickled...